Death by Government by R J Rummel – Book Review
There are books that you want to read. Then, there are also books that you may not want to read. Also, at times, there are books that friends and others…
Sarojini Naidu, Selected Poetry and Prose – Book Review (edited by Makrand Paranjape)
One of the finest English poets India produced, Sarojini Naidu, wrote many poems before independence and continued her literary ventures after India became free from the unholy clutches of the…
Behold a Pale Horse by Milton William Cooper – Book Review
Those who are familiar with conspiracy theories, the old and the new ones, must be familiar with a name – Milton William Cooper. Popular as Will Cooper, the guy was…
A Landless Alien: Where heart lay by Ramu Upadhaya – Review
A Landless Alien: where heart lay is a novel by Ramu Upadhaya that exhibits very elusive ideas vested in a democracy and the unmaking of it. The novelist has used…
Who Killed Shastri? The Tashkent Files book by Vivek Agnihotri – Review
Vivek Agnihotri’s movie, The Kashmir Files, has opened the floodgates. Many opinions are coming at a quick pace. Many are in favour of this movie and moviemaker. However, some people…
India That is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution by J Sai Deepak – Book Review
I have not put my faith in Ashwin Sanghi‘s concept of history being more stranger than fiction until now. After coming across the ‘opinions’ like Yudhishthir getting inspiration from Ashoka, and…
English Literature in Context by Paul Poplawski – Book Review
“… economic and social factors began significantly to change patterns of cultural production and consumption at the end of the nineteenth century. Of most relevance to literature (and fiction in…
Urban Naxals: The Making of Buddha in a Traffic Jam by Vivek Agnihotri – Review
Urban Naxals, a very popular title by director and screenwriter Vivek Agnihotri, published in 2017, is about the making of the movie Buddha in a Traffic Jam, as the subtitle…
Acts of Sanctification by Amitava Chaudhuri – Book Review
The novel ‘Acts of Sanctification’ by Amitava Chaudhuri is a wonderful political fiction loaded with aspiration, conspiracies, duel with the past of oneself and hopes and despair about the future…
Naakam Dushman by Ravi Ranjan Goswami (Hindi) – Book Review
Book: Nakaam Dushman Language: Hindi Author: Ravi Ranjan Goswami The world of Indian English literature has been lit up with a variety of works published by a variety of authors…
The Powerful, The Powerless by Shiva Dhuli – Book Review
The title contains the central idea of the novel – one set of characters is powerful and another set is powerless. However, in this world that we inhabit, nothing is…
See Glass by Ido Graf – Book Review
Political crime thrillers are not new. Espionage and spy fiction as well as novels based on grim realities are seldom welcomed in our country with open arms by readers as…